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Deal that averted TTC strike will cost Toronto $176M (Sat, 27 Jul 2024)

The TTC sign outside the north entrance to Bloor-Yonge subway station.

The cost of labour peace between the TTC and its largest union will be $176 million over the next three years, as the chair of the transit commission is defending the deal struck last month to avert a strike.
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How Toronto bars are gearing up for a busy Olympics (Sat, 27 Jul 2024)

The Paris Olympics are officially underway. While coverage of the games will be available across CBC's platforms, for those looking to get out of the house the games will be playing at bars across the city.
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'A liquid tightrope': A look at the stunning and dangerous waves surfers will ride at Olympics (Sat, 27 Jul 2024)

A woman holds her arms out as she surfs on the water. Her surfboard has a Canadian flag on it.

Sanoa Dempfle-Olin from Tofino, B.C. will be Canada's first Olympic surfer. She'll have to master the waves in Tahiti, which boasts some of the biggest and most unique waves in the world.
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Councillor calls for charges after death of cyclist in Yorkville (Fri, 26 Jul 2024)

Police officers look down at a helmet lying on a roadway at an accident scene.

A Toronto city councillor said she would like to see criminal charges laid in the death of a 24-year-old female cyclist in Yorkville this week.
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(Thu, 25 Jul 2024)

A small boy standing in front of some plants.

A three-year-old boy has been found dead in a Mississauga creek a day after he was reported missing, Peel police say.
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Céline Dion performs opening ceremony's grand finale after athletes make rainy trip down the Seine (Wed, 24 Jul 2024)

Two athletes, a man and a woman, are seen posing with the Canadian flag on a boat, in front of plenty of fellow athletes.

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Spadina Avenue is getting a dedicated bus lane, after city council approves temporary measure (Fri, 26 Jul 2024)

Spadina Avenue will get a dedicated bus lane starting Monday, after city council voted unanimously this week to approve the measure in a bid to tackle congestion.
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Judge dismisses Ontario Place constitutional challenge (Fri, 26 Jul 2024)

Photograph images of demolition equipment at a standstill at Ontario Place

A judge has dismissed a legal challenge that would have stopped the Ontario Place redevelopment. Ontario Place Protectors, which filed the legal challenge, called the decision "surprising and disturbing."
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This Liberal threatened to take a stand over Gaza. Now she's leading talks on anti-Palestinian racism (Fri, 26 Jul 2024)

Liberal member of Parliament Salma Zahid talks to reporters as she arrives to a caucus meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Two Liberal MPs are holding a roundtable Friday evening in Toronto about anti-Palestinian racism, to study whether this type of discrimination should be part of the federal government's recently updated anti-racism strategy, CBC News has learned.
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Toronto backtracks on removing businessman's name from historic house after racism controversy (Fri, 26 Jul 2024)

A large and mostly yellow brick house is seen through several trees.

City officials in Toronto have reversed course on a controversial decision to remove the name of a prominent early 20th century Toronto businessman from a historic home, in light of new information brought forward by his descendants.
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. Toronto is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to 8.1 million residents and has approximately 25% of Canada's population. The Toronto metropolitan census area had a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.

As Canada's economic capital, Toronto is considered a global city and is one of the top financial centres in the world. Toronto's leading economic sectors include finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace, transportation, media, arts, film, television production, publishing, software production, medical research, education, tourism and sports industries.The Toronto Stock Exchange, the world's seventh largest, is headquartered in the city, along with most of Canada's corporations. They also have an NHL hockey team, called the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Toronto's population is cosmopolitan and international, reflecting its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, as about 49% of the population were born outside of Canada. Because of the city's low crime rates, clean environment, high standard of living, and friendly attitude to diversity, Toronto is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey. In addition, Toronto was ranked as the most expensive Canadian city in which to live in 2006.

Residents of the city are called Torontonians.